Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale.
Long, long the death
It dies in the white hours
Of young-leafed June
With chestnut flowers,
With hedges snowlike strewn,
White lilac bowed,
Lost lanes of Queen Anne’s lace,
And that high-builded cloud
Moving at summer’s pace.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Watching Unto God In The Night Season (2) by William Cowper
- Faith and Faiths by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Михаил Кузмин – Врач мудрый нам открыл секрет природы
- Robert Burns: O Lay Thy Loof In Mine, Lass:
- The Gardener XLII: O Mad, Superbly Drunk by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Sound Of Music -a Ghazal by Umamaheswari Anandane
- A Birthday Present poem – Alfred Austin
- Виталий Тунников – Заюшкина избушка
- Robert Burns: Address Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her Benefit Night, December 4th, 1793, at the Theatre, Dumfries.:
- Николай Заболоцкий – Испытание воли
- Олег Григорьев – На заборе валенки
- The Other Side of Panic by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Coal-Truck by T. Wignesan
- Иван Бунин – Апрель
- All Saints Day 1867
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985), Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Cavalier of the Order of the Companions of Honour, was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.